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| Congressman Mitchell: Pausing to Consider People Who REALLY Matter |
Chairman Harry Mitchell is a Hero to Veterans Nationwide August 20, 2010 (Arizona Republic) - It's been a month since I spoke to Rep. Harry Mitchell about suicides among military veterans and I'm just getting around to writing something. |
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| What Obama Won't Say Tonight About US Withdrawal from Iraq |
| August 31, 2010 (ConsortiumNews) - President Barack Obama’s aides say his speech this evening marking the end of "combat operations" in Iraq will avoid the vainglorious aspects of President George W. Bush’s infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech in 2003. We’ll see. |
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| Lawsuit Update: Prudential's Half-Billion in Dirty Secret Profits |
Families of Dead Soldiers Sue Insurer Over Its Handling of Survivors’ Benefits August 29, 2010 (New York Times) - Vickie Castro’s only child was killed six years ago just before Christmas, when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside an Army mess tent in Mosul, Iraq, killing more than 20 people. |
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| Op-Ed: Cost of War Must Also Include Caring for Our Veterans |
Overlooked Cost of Iraq / Afghanistan Wars: Our Veterans' Healthcare and Benefits August 15, 2010 (San Francisco Chronicle) - Two years after an Army specialist saw half his platoon torn apart in Iraq, he hanged himself in a California backyard. |
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| VA Secretary Shinseki's Open Message to Gulf War Veterans |
| August 11, 2010, Washington, DC (VA Press Release) - August 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Gulf War, launched with Operation Desert Shield and followed by Operation Desert Storm. VA honors this milestone with a renewed commitment to improving our responsiveness to the challenges facing Gulf War Veterans. |
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Salon Investigation: Corruption at Arlington National Cemetery
Written by Mark Benjamin
Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:55
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Salon magazine's first class investigative journalist, Mark Benjamin, wrote a dozen stories documenting corruption at Arlington National Cemetery. Veterans for Common Sense asks the Secretary Gates, the national media, and Congress to investigate this issue. July 16, 2009: Grave offenses at Arlington National Cemetery. A criminal investigation and allegations of misplaced bodies and shoddy care have roiled the famous burial ground. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/16/arlington_national_cemetery/ July 17, 2009: What's trashed at Arlington National Cemetery. Many personal mementos of dead soldiers are being thrown out -- a stark contrast to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/17/arlington_gravesites/index.html July 20, 2009: A grave record from Arlington. The document saying of Grave 449, "CASKET IN GRAVE REMAINS UNKNOWN." http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/07/20/arlington_document/index.html July 21, 2009: Arlington's buried secrets. The cemetery admits it can't identify grave-site remains -- while new evidence casts doubt on Army investigation. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/21/arlington_secrets/ July 29, 2009: Army will investigate Arlington National Cemetery. After a Salon series exposes problems at the cemetery, the Army says it will investigate. But workers have doubts. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/29/arlington/ August 10, 2009: Why did Arlington National Cemetery rehire Bobbie Garrett? Garrett was investigated for fraud while working as a contractor for the cemetery. Why did he get his job back? http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/10/arlington/ August 11, 2009: Did Arlington National Cemetery break the law? The cemetery sent the personal data of deceased soldiers to a contractor at the center of a fraud scandal. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/11/arlington/ August 14, 2009: Contractor in Arlington fraud scandal arrested. Arlington National Cemetery contractor Bobbie Garrett was arrested on sex charges as he stepped off a plane in Ohio. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/14/arlington/index.html September 29, 2009: Millions in contracts, no work completed. An Arlington National Cemetery official keeps sending work to the same small group of associates, with few results. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/29/arlington_contracts/index.html October 7, 2009: Arlington unveils a new unknown soldier. The first headstone stamped "Unknown" since 1984 is the result not of war's chaos, but of human error. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/10/07/arlington_cemetery/ November 2, 2009: More misplaced remains at Arlington National Cemetery. What happened to Master Sgt. Marion Grabe, says a source, is a clue "that there may be thousands of these problems." http://www.salon.com/news/arlington_national_cemetary_investigation/index.html?story=/news/feature/2009/11/01/arlington_national_cemetery November 5, 2009: Arlington officials can't get their stories straight. The superintendent says he may have been absent when remains were moved, but an employee's log says otherwise. |